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Premise

Carter Stevens has a close relationship with her mother, Lori, but her world is turned upside down when she is told by Child Protective Services that she was abducted from her biological family at the age of three. She learns that her real name is Lyndon and is forced to return to the Wilsons, although she has every intention of reuniting with Lori. She meets her fraternal twin sister, Taylor, and her younger brother, Grant. While she begins to form relationships with her siblings, father, and Taylor's best friend, Gabe, Carter clashes with her biological mother.

Episodes

16-year-old Carter's life is turned upside down when she learns that the mom who raised her is actually her abductor. But after being reunited with her real family, she learns there's more to her kidnapping than meets the eye.

Carter and Taylor team up to force their mother to come clean about her affair. With the threat of destroying the family, Carter must decide whether she's willing to do the unthinkable in order to bring the family back together.

Music

Production and development

Finding Carter was written as a writing sample by Emily Silver, who then shopped it around to networks such as ABC Family and MTV. Shortly after, Terri Minsky was brought onto the project as an executive producer and the pilot went through a re-write.[4] On September 12, 2013, MTV placed a pilot order.[5]Scott Speer then signed on to direct the pilot.[4]

On January 30, 2014, Finding Carter was given a 12-episode series order.[4] Filming for Finding Carter takes place in Atlanta, Georgia,[6] in Westlake High School's old facility. In April, it was announced that Jesse Henderson would play Gabe, the role in which Nolan Sotillo was previously cast.[7]

Trivia

Megan Prescott, Kathryn Prescott's twin sister, was never considered for the role of Taylor Wilson, because she wanted to pursue writing. Furthermore, had Meg been cast for the role of Carter's sister, there would not have been anything for Carter to reject about her family, since they would have looked too familiar.[8]